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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Taiwan Official Silver Bureau (臺灣官銀錢票總局) |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Currency | Wen (1871-1895) |
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| Obverse description | Vertically formatted note with a central rectangular cartouche enclosed within a decorative border of fine foliate guilloche work. The upper register bears the institution title in large Chinese characters, with the denomination and payment obligation inscribed in the central text block. A Guangxu reign-date inscription appears in the left margin alongside serial-number brush notations, while official red seal impressions are applied at multiple points across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 臺灣官銀錢票總局 官銀票 憑票支付銀拾員整 光緒廿年七月廿三日 住字拾伍號 |
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The Taiwan Official Silver Bureau was established under Qing administration in the final years before Japan took formal control of the island following the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895. This note was issued during one of the shortest-lived political episodes in Chinese history — the Taiwan Republic (台灣民主國), a breakaway government that lasted roughly five months before Japanese forces completed their occupation in October 1895. The bureau and its paper emissions existed almost entirely within that chaotic interregnum.
Locally printed on the island during a period of active military conflict, surviving examples are extraordinarily rare. The seal impression — the note's sole security feature — was the work of an administration that ceased to exist within months of issue.